Union Wins Case

May 24, 1985

TORONTO — A security company must pay the United Steelworkers of America $507,729.88 in damages. Why: For spying on union members during a 1981 strike against a firm in Etobicoke, a Toronto suburb. Brian Shell, a USW attorney, said the strike was prolonged for five weeks because an agent of Securicor Investigation and Security Ltd., who had infiltrated the strikers, fed information to management. The award by the Ontario Labor Relations Board: The largest in its history.